Comment by Sandman

One thing I noticed about Odersky is that he is very protective of his creation (which is understandable, to some degree). He defends Scala against any and all criticism with a fervor, and this puts him in sharp contrast with most of other language creators who seem to be able to accept critique (or even plain old language bashing) much more calmly. So some guy wrote a blog post about how he doesn't like Scala, so what? People complain about Java all the time, imagine if every time that happened, James Gosling wrote a blog post bitching and moaning about it.